It's been interesting.
You will have noticed your peers and colleagues in, let's call it, venture
capital, but small tech maybe as well. That week following the assassination
attempt on former President Trump and then J.D.
Vance emerging as the pick. X in particular was a place where
everyone was quite vocal. Now we're hearing more from the Kamala
Harris side. Your position, please, Katie.
Hi. Thank you so much for having me.
So we live in a democracy, and everyone has a right to their own opinion.
And I think our industry, just like our country, has a diversity of opinions.
And I think there are a lot of people like myself who are really enthusiastic
and excited about what the Kamala Harris campaign stands for, our hope for
optimism, for innovation. And we're excited to move the country
forward. One of the areas of focus with J.D.
Vance in particular is his experience as a venture capitalist, his experience of
so-called Silicon Valley, and what that

might mean for sort of an environment
where entrepreneurs want to thrive. Do you feel that Kamala Harris has the
same attributes that she can provide a similar environment if she were to be
re-elected? Well, she's way better elected.
Yeah, Yeah, she's way better. She's from the Bay Area.
She understands technology. She understands innovation.
She also understands responsibility. So she has somebody that I think we're
very enthusiastic from the tech industry about what she can bring to the future.
And really excited for her campaign. Finally, on the election, I was not in
America in 2016. I arrived 2018.
But I find the venture capital community how vocal they are.
A bit of surprise this time around. Do you see a difference in how active
your industry is now versus 2016 and 2020?
I think right now we have enormous challenges in front of us.
We have climate change. We have economic uncertainty.
We have a lack of access to health care

affordability and housing affordability.
And it's important to be able to support a number of entrepreneurs and innovators,
and to help provide better solutions that make life and work better.
So I think there are enormous challenges, enormous opportunities, and
again, really excited about teams that can move us forward and help us build
services for more people. KC We welcome you to Bloomberg
Technology because Moxy has raised $95 million for a third fund.
There's some interesting and quite unique factors behind the LP's and how
you went about the race. Just just explain the basics of that.
Sure. We're thrilled to be able to announce
our third fund, which is $95 million in a really challenging funding
environment. And we're looking for founders to
basically make life and work better for millions of people around the world.
And most of our founders are technical. 50% of them are immigrants, a third are
women. And we're really excited to have a
diverse group of founders.

We're also really proud of the investors
that have backed us. We have a number of world-class, mission-driven investors from GM to the Nature Conservancy to Children's Health, Sandon
and Foundry. And we're really delighted and honored
to be able to work with them going forward.
So I just mentioned quickly, you were within the Obama administration at one
point, but in tech, Twitter, Google, you're on the board of Yahoo!
Vivendi. How is that sort of CB going to
influence your investments and where you write checks?
I think it's really helpful. So I invest in seed-stage companies, but
I'm on the board of a company, Vivendi, which was started by Napoleon.
So that's a really wide range. And I think it's important to be able to
cross-pollinate our network, our experiences, and and to able to enable
ourselves and our team at Moxie to be

Able to help support our founders.
Helping them grow. Helping them build.
Helping them hire.

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